007 First Light Benchmark: 30+ GPUs Tested & Compared
▼ Summary
– 007 First Light is a third-person action-adventure game from IO Interactive, delayed from March to May 2026 for additional polish.
– The game is a reimagined origin story of James Bond joining MI6’s Double-0 program, set in modern times across locations like Iceland and Vietnam.
– It uses IO Interactive’s proprietary Glacier engine with DirectX 12 only, and lacks ray tracing at launch.
– Path tracing and DLSS Ray Reconstruction are planned for a summer 2026 update, with upscaling limited to DLSS 4.5 and FSR 3.1.5.
– Frame generation is exclusive to DLSS Dynamic Multi Frame Generation (up to 6x), with no support for FSR or Intel frame generation.
The wait for a proper James Bond game is finally over. IO Interactive, the acclaimed developer behind the Hitman series, has launched 007 First Light, a title they themselves call “our most ambitious project to date.” Originally set for a March 2026 release, the game was pushed back by two months for extra polish, and it has now arrived. This is a third-person, story-driven action-adventure that reimagines the origin of the world’s most famous spy. Players follow a young James Bond as he joins MI6’s revived Double-0 program in a modern setting. The narrative spans a globe-trotting adventure, taking players from Iceland and Malta to Mauritania, Vietnam, Slovakia, and Antarctica as our favorite secret agent unravels a sprawling conspiracy.
Under the hood, 007 First Light runs on IO Interactive’s proprietary Glacier engine, the same technology that powered the Hitman trilogy. As expected, the only supported rendering API is DirectX 12. Notably, there is no ray tracing at launch. IO Interactive and NVIDIA have confirmed that a path tracing update, along with DLSS Ray Reconstruction, will arrive in a summer 2026 patch. For upscaling, the game supports NVIDIA DLSS 4.5 and AMD FSR 3.1.5, but Intel XeSS is absent. Frame generation is handled exclusively through DLSS Dynamic Multi Frame Generation, which can go up to 6x. There is no FSR frame generation and no support for Intel’s frame generation technology. A native TAA mode is available when upscaling is turned off entirely.
This performance review evaluates 007 First Light across a wide range of contemporary graphics cards. It compares image quality settings and analyzes VRAM usage to give you a clear picture of the hardware requirements needed for an optimal experience.
(Source: Techpowerup.com)
